All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Comments (). Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Innovation 110

Innovation AWS Education Network 110

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Adrian Cockcroft

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Fujitsu used SPARC for everything from servers to embedded systems like cameras for a long time. There are also enterprise server oriented designs from several vendors including Alibabas XuanTie division, with performance comparable to leading x86 and ARMCPUs. When will it become a headline ingredient that people notice?

Architecture 85

Architecture Mobile Design Government 85

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

The images from the 2008 TNW Conference have travelled around the world in my Animoto demo: This year TNW is showing that it is not just a conference for talkers but also for builders by organizing a massive Hackaton in the two days running up to the conference. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Internet Internet Storage 74

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 109

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Here are the laurels given by the editors: Debuting in November 2008, Amazons entry into the CDN market quickly became a major player. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

Media 60

Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. } ; We now have correct lengths for the column definitions, and we won't be passing them as LOBs over TDS to SQL Server.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. That's about 24 hours from now! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. A Windows kernel file buffer bug from Server 2008 R2 to Windows 10. So, I went to Task Manager’s Details tab, added the Handles column, and sorted by it.

Processing 72

Processing Programming Code Systems 72

SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

Have you ever contacted Microsoft or a Microsoft partner and discussed with them what it would cost to move to the cloud? DeviceID – This allows you to specify if you want to collect data for a specific SQL Server or everything. The default is -1, which means copy all watched SQL Servers. Device] table, and pass that value.

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